Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah, I’ve eaten my body weight in gelt, so it’s time to go lift weights – or books. Or both!
To continue the festive merriment to celebrate reading, both paper and digital, I have a collection of contemporary romance – hardcovers and paperbacks!
All you have to do to win is leave a comment, and I’ll select a winner each day. These contests are open to international winners, and I will do my best to ship this week, provided people send me their addresses promptly.
Standard disclaimers apply: I’m not being compensated for this giveaway. If anything, my gift is exceptional support of the United States Postal Service (Happy Hanukkah, US Mail Carriers!). We r who we r. Edited for television. Keep cool. Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear. A one that is not cold is scarcely a one at all.
Ahoy! Contest the seventh!
On the Seventh Night of Hanukkah, Smart Bitches Gave to Me: A massive selection of contemporary romance and contemporary fiction!
Just leave a comment below, and tell me which contemporary romance setting is your favorite – cities? small towns? cruise ships? space stations? – and you’re entered to win. Comments close in 24 hours, but fear not, there’s another book – paper or digital – giveaway coming soon. Because Hanukkah lasts for eight crazy nights, and I have lost my ever lovin’ mind.
Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Reading!
Small towns, without a doubt. Although a space station romance might be fun… are there any (outside of fantasy/scifi/PR)?
I’m a sucker for a heroine who, when life kicks her in the teeth, she returns home to a small town. Don’t know why I love it, I just do.
I don’t read a lot of contemporary romance, but the ones I usually read take place in big cities. I can do small towns depending on the characters and how much I can get into it. :)))
I think I like small towns the best, simply because they often have the best support characters—quirky small-towners!
I love small towns – more personal. Just read the last of the Bridal Quartet and I want to see all the women get married – not just Mac.
Small towns. I grew up in the Chicago area and now live in a tiny town in Wisconsin. Small towns are so much more personal! (read: gossip FTW!)
my personal favourite are “remote and stranded” situations. ok, that has to do with me being partial to love-hate relationships between protagonists, which function the best when they get stranded somewhere for a certain amount of time. so, i’d vote for a space station. can you get more remote and stranded than that? 😉
I guess I prefer cities, sort of girl makes it in the big lonely city kind of stories, but I don’t mind the small town ones that are so popular now.
I wasn’t really into contemporaries before joining this site, and I am a big fan now, especially with some of the great recommendations I’ve found here!
Small towns work well for me, probably because I’m a sucker for the “nerd who loved her his whole life and now that he’s a stud, he’s ready to throw her over the back of his Harley and suck certain parts of her,” trope. And that doesn’t play so well in a big city or on a cruise ship or space station.
I’m a sucker for a small town story!
Small towns. I grew up in one and just moved to one. They’re not as great in reality. (I would probably feel better about it if WalMart weren’t the only bookseller in a 45 mile radius.)
I like any setting where our couple is forced to be together and alone, especially if they can’t stand each other! Particular favorites are cabins in the woods, snow storms, and “Run, they’re trying to kill you!”. :O)
I tend to like cities best. I can get into small town romance, especially because it’s usually very sweet, but I feel that cities are more lively and fun to read about.
Big cities are for me. If I can feel the city with the characters it’s the best. Or in the forest. I don’t remember what I read set in the forest, but I love the setting. Do we know any good romances in the forest?
Small towns, especially if it’s set in the West. I love contemporary westerns.
I prefer small towns. Thanks for the giveaway.
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I am a sucker for cowboys.
Small towns or rural settings. Not the “little house” types, but areas where you can actually see the stars at night. Less distractions in small towns.. fewer people, but you can get closer to people when there are fewer of them.
Cities or small towns, though it is hard to get small towns right. Authors want to fill small towns with quirky characters and sometimes overshoot. My small town (1300) has plenty of quirky characters but they are not necessarily all irascible but lovable.
Remote towns that are still close to interesting cities. I end up clinging to Contemps that happen up in the New England area, where there can be a spooky cabin and a neat city all in the same narrative package.
Small towns get my vote. Maybe because I live in a small town and like to hope something exciting/romantic could happen there.
Hmm… my favorite contemps are road trips… so does On the Road count as a location?
Small Towns would be my second fave.
You had me at Barbara Bretton. I LOVE her small town Connecticut settings. Small towns do it for me because even in the most austere settings, love abounds.
I don’t have a favorite location. I just want the location to work with the story. I hate it when the location is confusing. I read a book that made me pull out my atlas and try to make sense of the story. The characters supposedly lived “in the middle of nowhere” but managed to get to the coffee shop everyday to talk to neighbors! Based on my map the coffee shop would have been over an hour each way. That’s one small example!
In small, Southern towns. I know it’s very specific but I just love the dialect, the sense of family and pride in the community that comes through in books set in the South.
I like them all 🙂
In almost 20 years of romance reading, I haven’t yet read a contemporary romance. maybe it’s time.
I like both small towns and cities.
I’m a sucker for city stories involving professional sports teams.
The small town books are lovely. That idea of everyone knowing everyone else and their business is quite nice in fiction – not so nice in reality.
I love small towns, I think because I come from one. That, and it’s nice to be reminded that love, romance, and DRAMA can happen to even the small-town folk.
mmmm….books….
Wooooooohoooooo More Teresa Meideros goodness! My favs are set in cities..
I like both small towns and cities. I can’t really choose. I find it cute when neighbors help setting up the heroine and hero in small town romances. But I also like stories set in professional big city environments.
I’d vote for small town or rural settings. Maybe b/c I am seem to be into westerns these days.
I like small towns where the characters all know each other and everyone’s all up in everyone else’s business.
Big cities which are not New York! Seriously, if I have to read about how NYC is the best city in the world and the protagonist is so lucky to live there, blah blah blah. Plus, I live in Chicago. Which is ACTUALLY the best. So I find myself offended.
I am a small town type of girl, leaning to the country. But I read just about everything if the story is good.
I’d go with cities, though I’m always fond of the “fish out of water” scenarios, so I guess I could also put small towns.
Mountain settings. All of that hiking really warms you up. Plus all those opportunities for trapped-in-the-cabin scenarios. Awesome.